Zhihan Zhang
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhihan Zhang is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Rufus with eight years of experience advancing instruction-following and agent training for large language models. He completed a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and has a track record of research internships across top labs (Amazon, Microsoft, Snap, Tencent) focused on instruction tuning, reinforcement learning, and knowledge-augmented reasoning. Zhihan blends academic rigor with production-minded research, shifting from recommender-system optimization to fine-tuning foundation models for alignment and math/ cross-lingual accuracy. Notably, his work spans both evaluation methodologies and practical post-training techniques, helping bridge model capabilities and real-world instruction-following behavior.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
prediction8
nlp5
natural-language-processing4
evaluation2
transformers1
keras1
pytorch1
transformer1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
bert1
llm1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ytyz1307zzh/Miscellany
Oct 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
ytyz1307zzh/KOALA
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:175 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
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